Noma Bar

Noma Bar is a very interesting graphic designer to me and someone who's designs truly inspire and make me think. Bar works mainly in Europe as he lives in Great Britain, (was born in Israel) and has created designs for Time Out London, The Observer, and England's famed BBC. Bar's work inspires me because she uses very simple graphics and ideas but creates underlying visions or messages in her designs. Although he has made many ingenious designs for companies, he draws a thin line between designing graphics and making artwork. Noma has over 500 illustrations and prints that are for sale as art, mostly of his famous abstract face design to many different celebrities and movies.
Something Noma Bar gas become very famous for is his use of negative space in his designs, which I find very interesting. Some of his designs are over 80% white space yet portrays a crisp and powerful image or meaning.
 This is a recent design of Bar's for a Japanese author, it is a great example of Bar's incredible use of negative space, which in this case creates a cat and a face all in one.

 This is another very famous design from Bar. This was one of his first designs he made, creating Sadam Hussein's face out of the bio hazard symbol. It is truly ingenious how he incorporates such strong messages into his designs, while using very simple designs. This image made Noma very popular, for the way he captured Sadam's face and mustache, while portraying the message of danger and hazard, which we all know went hand in hand with Mr. Hussein.


 These too are some of Noma's very powerful and famous designs capturing (from top left to right) boxing gloves which also show a muscular man in the negative space, Adolf Hitler, Pulp Fiction, and Kim Jong Li. All extremely powerful in their own ways.